Many women have accomplished exceptional achievements. Yet History with a capital H often remains a men’s-only club. Only 5% of the people cited in history books are women, when in fact many women have had remarkable destinies. The goal of the Women of the World collection is to help introduce readers to women who have made a mark on their times, be it in the world of fashion, politics, the arts, literature, or elsewhere. Each in her own domain, the women whom these books will be devoted to are remarkable, uncommon figures. Their life stories are told her. Indira GANDHI was one of the most powerful women in the world, one of the first to run a modern democracy. Heir to the wisdom of an age-old Indian tradition, she displayed a political intuition equaled only by her blindness as a mother. There are no biographies of this extraordinary woman currently available in France.